The Basketball Battle: the end

Well, the war of the Baynham siblings, with the extra addition of daughter Kate, finally rolled to a halt yesterday afternoon. In one sense, its rather comical that we could get all fired up about something that one side doesn't even care about, which is Susan's indifference to basketball. But at the same time, I suppose that it is nice that the most significant thing we argue about, as siblings, is about something as trivial as basketball.

I think my Kentucky grandmother, who played basketball at school, is rolling in her grave right now. Basketball? Trivial? Perhaps she is just getting into a defensive position.

I think I need to make sure my mother is reading this last blog and all the comments. We all thought it got pretty funny at this end.

A little family history. When my mother graduated from high school or college (I think it was college, but I am not sure) they published a list of all of the likes and dislikes of the graduating seniors in the yearbook. My mother's published dislike was "sarcastic boys." Soon thereafter she married the prince of sarcasm, my father, and had three, count them, three sarcastic children. At this point, my mother should be shaking her head in affirmation or, perhaps, in disgust at how the earlier dislikes of her youth were her ultimate undoing.

Everybody who knows us well should know that we are built this way. However, many people may not know that my sister is just as sarcastic as the rest of us. Perhaps, even more so. But that's ok. Even mom can get off a biting comment every so often. She just doesn't do it as readily as the rest of us. Or as often.

As you can see, of course, from her comment to my blog, daughter Kate is also rather acid-tongued. Funny, but biting.

When your whole family is sarcastic, you sometimes forget that there are some out there who aren't. I can hear Kate now: "So, what's their problem?" I have run across some like that. It is a little off-putting when you run into one. It's like you have to be sooo careful.

Well, that's enough for now.

However, March Madness is here. All of my favorites are involved: Kentucky, Georgia, Austin Peay, Butler, Cal State Fullerton, Western Kentucky, even Gonzaga. I suppose that if Georgia State was in it, I would pull for them, too. Or PC. I don't think too many of them will last past the first round. Maybe Butler and Gonzaga. That is kind of odd. Two little schools. One in Indianapolis, Indiana. One in Spokane, Washington. And they might have the best chance of all of those schools to advance past the first round or two.

At this point, I have bored my sister and a few others. I think I'll quit.